Principal AI-First Platform Engineer

Veeva Systems, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and basiclife

Flexible PTO and company paid holidays

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving program

Job summary

Veeva Systems, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build a new AI-driven platform for life sciences. You will be a founding member of a team shaping architecture, coding standards, and AI-assisted engineering, with live customers within the first year.

You will own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, define best practices, and collaborate with product management to deliver scalable SaaS solutions in a fast-paced environment. Excellent English required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of proven software development expertise (Production level Python development required).
• Extensive experience developing high-scale enterprise SaaS cloud applications.
• Proven track record of architecting and building high-volume products at scale.
• Hands-on development experience with current open-source tools and technologies, including Python, Git, FastAPI, Pydantic.
• Highly driven and flexible, enjoys a fast-paced start-up environment, and believes in having fun along the way.
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate team performance, fostering growth and excellence.
• Veeva is a hard-working company and values integrity, transparency, and accountability.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own all stages of feature implementation, from design and development through deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Development on technical design and problem-solving to deliver great code.
• Quickly analyze complex problems, identifying knowns and unknowns, to accelerate robust solutions.
• Define, promote, and mentor on engineering best practices and coding standards, including AI-assisted engineering.
• Provide comprehensive code reviews for engineers of all experience levels.
• Develop the skills of engineering talent through structured mentorship.

Skills

Python

Open source tooling

Code reviews

Mentorship

Engineering leadership

System design

Communication

SaaS engineering

Adaptability

Tools

Git

FastAPI

Pydantic

Job description

Veeva Systems, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build a new AI-driven platform for life sciences. You will be a founding member of a team shaping architecture, coding standards, and AI-assisted engineering, with live customers within the first year.

You will own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, define best practices, and collaborate with product management to deliver scalable SaaS solutions in a fast-paced environment. Excellent English required.